CASE STUDY - LAW ENFORCEMENT Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie
Morocco OVERVIEW The Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie was established in 1957 and is part of the Royal Armed Forces of Morocco. With the mission of ensuring the security, health and tranquility of all Moroccan citizens and the protection of their property, the Gendarmerie is a major law enforcement force within the country. It is also responsible for policing in rural areas and managing the traffic networks. REQUIREMENTS THE CHALLENGE Eliminate paper As part of the judicial police, the territorial units of the Gendarmerie are also and ink cards charged with enforcing Moroccan laws by detecting offenses, gathering Digitize current fingerprint evidence and pursuing criminals. The Gendarmerie recognized they had card archive to address the challenges that were slowing the criminal booking and Livescan capture of finger- identification process. These issues included: prints and palm prints Establish standard Manual booking of individuals with ink and paper was time consuming enrollment identification and complex. It only captured fingerprints and it required additional process at all outposts staff to process. Store criminal records The matching process and managing a paper-based criminal records (biometric, biographical, archive were inefficient, labor intensive, and time-consuming. evidentiary) in a centralized database for archiving and Each Gendarmerie outpost had manual criminal booking and processing rapid electronic record procedures, which caused errors and inefficiencies. matching In addition to these issues the lack of a shared centralized criminal records Enable data sharing database slowed the identification process, making criminal identities easy across outposts to miss or slow to identify.
HID GLOBAL PRODUCTS THE SOLUTION Palm Scanner HID Global was selected by the Gendarmerie to provide a comprehensive HID Crossmatch L Scan 1000 end-to-end criminal enrollment and identification solution to digitize, improve Multimodal HID Seek II and expedite criminal booking and latent examination. The solution enabled AFIS latent print examination the quick identification of individuals with a past criminal history by digitizing workstations the criminal booking process and archiving all records and documented Application Servers criminal activities. This capability provided a mechanism to digitize an HID Integrale Store and existing archive of paper and ink records for real-time matching and response. Forward Scalable AFIS databases and matching system Fingerprint card conversion application
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THE RESULTS BENEFITS A scalable centralized Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) The HID Global solution has database was implemented, successfully providing a repository of fingerprint standardized and expedited the and palm print records for rapid identification and latent examination Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie matching. The initial database of 20,000 records has grown to more than criminal booking process — 130,000 in just four years. Many of these prints have been obtained from the providing electronic access HID SEEK® II and SEEK Avenger multimodal mobile handhelds, which are to historical criminal records, deployed in the field. improving record matching accuracy and shortening The Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie now has a common booking procedure response times. that improves the timeliness of processing identity and criminal history searches. The field-proven livescan and mobile biometric scanner technologies, intuitive enrollment software, and scalable AFIS have allowed for a more seamless process. Since the initial installation, the Gendarmerie has processed more than 36,000 criminal bookings, solved more than 400 latent cases, booked hundreds of suspects using mobile handhelds and identified 15,000 illegal immigrants at remote border crossings.
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